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Staci Fritz is growing her company that features unusual ice cream flavors.

We have jobs. We have hobbies. For some, those hobbies create jobs.

Two Madison companies team up to expand the versatility of site markers.

St. John's Northwestern Military Academy's bagpipe band adds a Scottish touch to the school. 

Sisters Jennifer Haley and Julie Umhoefer bring business and design skills plus a shared lifetime in the furniture business to their store, Dwellings. The pair grew up visiting and later worki…

The number of public school students opting out of state-mandated tests in Madison rose nearly 500 percent in the 2014-15 school year.

More than 500 students in Madison schools have opted out of taking Wisconsin's new state test -- up from 87 students during the last school year.

Finance Committee should promote fiscal responsibility, economic growth, education

The club that has served Madison’s LGBTQ community since 1988 will close April 26 unless enough funding can be raised to keep it up and running.

That’s one of the unique things about big-money national politics: Unlike in saner areas of life, stark contradictions can be perfectly compatible.

The Cambridge golf club marks a major anniversary.

Madison police are investigating a disturbance on the North Side in which shots apparently were fired from a handgun early Saturday morning.

“Impressions on a Dream Canvas,” on view at the Monona Public Library, is an exhibit based on the 29 chapter illustrations in Ann E. Aswegan’s book “Awakening to the Song of Your Self.”

Over the last 65 years, three Democrats — John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama — captured the presidency by running as candidates of generational change against the political status quo.

Acclaimed Japanese artist Ikeda Manabu is midway through a three-year residency at the Chazen Museum of Art.

A few weeks ago, a writer from a national magazine interviewed me regarding how to improve your comfort in bed when you have a chronic or painful condition. As we spoke, I realized that I’d ne…

WASHINGTON — Here we go. If you’re a woman who might prefer someone other than Hillary Clinton as the next president of the United States, you’re a self-loathing, anti-woman traitor.

Tips for your flowers, trees and shrubs.

We heard the hooting all winter. Sometimes you’d get a glimpse of a wing or a dark shadow flashing by. Neighbors thought there must be a nest in the tallest tree between our houses.

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